Role: Head Cook Location: Malmesbury
Contract: 32 hours p/w to include alternate weekends
Pay rate: £11.78
The Abbeyfield Society is a national charity helping to alleviate loneliness and isolation in older people by providing companionship in our supported housing accommodation, retirement apartments, and care homes.
This is a brilliant opportunity for people interested in supporting our restaurant, covering staff holidays and sickness. Our restaurant, situated in our Independent Living service, offers delicious breakfast options, light lunches, and snacks to our residents, visitors, and the wider local community. The Role of a Head Cook: Create healthy balanced meals that reflect the needs and dietary preferences of residents and external customers.Help develop awareness of the restaurant within the community, offering meals at a low cost and the social benefits they bring.Ensure a safe and sufficient supply of catering products by developing a system of ordering supplies in a timely manner and maintaining good stock control.Maintain effective stock rotation and control to manage catering costs within the agreed catering budget.Ensure safe and proper use of catering equipment, reporting any defects to management, and adhering to kitchen cleaning procedures in accordance with Environmental Health standards.Participate in and supervise the completion of all relevant records in relation to food safety.About You: Relevant Certificate in Food Hygiene and demonstrable experience of cooking varied, healthy, and safe meals for large groups.Able to lead and support the kitchen staff team, training and developing individuals.Capable of managing resources and planning rotas in advance to ensure continuity of the catering service.Methodical and highly organized; maintaining cleanliness and effective stock rotation in the kitchen.Abbeyfield can offer you: A great work/life balance with job satisfaction.Competitive rates of pay.Unlimited opportunities to earn £500 via our 'refer a colleague' scheme.Menopause Friendly accredited workplace.Pay progression within role.Child Care Vouchers.Supportive leadership with learning and career development opportunities.Enhanced holiday entitlement for long service.Medical cashback scheme for claiming back costs of medical expenses.Occupational sick pay.Eligibility for a Blue Light card with huge savings.You can find out more about what makes working for Abbeyfield great using the link below:
Rewards and benefits of working at Abbeyfield | Careers at Abbeyfield We look forward to hearing from you.
We reserve the right to close posts at any time, once we have received sufficient applications. Please note this role will require eligibility to work in the UK, two satisfactory employment references, and a Standard DBS check, the cost of which will be met by Abbeyfield. You may be asked to provide details regarding convictions; failure to disclose convictions may result in an offer of employment being revoked.
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